Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 10:07:51 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Urge to apply the vn device hack even to 2.2.5 Message-ID: <199710211507.KAA02003@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <19971021075322.GK58851@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Oct 21, 97 07:53:22 am"
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J Wunsch said: > As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > ... (and current.freebsd.org is another 128MB box - > > maybe we should make our release-a-day server a 486SX with 8MB of > > memory and switch it to being a release-a-week server instead. > > We'd not have as useful a service by far, but it sure would catch > > those load sensitive bugs early. :-) > > I was already contemplating to donate my 5 MB 386/16 notebook to John > Dyson for development work on low-memory machines. :-)) > > Background: Bruce yesterday wrote me that the zone memory allocator > allocates 256 KB of static memory. This is pretty (too) much on a 5 > MB machine. > That should be easily re-tuned. In fact, I was planning on it for other reasons. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com
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